Feature: Race Options for Horses

I’ve expanded the race options for the horses.

  • Runs on Dirt - if yes, this horse will show up for dirt race entries. If the horse is a jumper, this option will not appear.
  • Runs on Turf - if yes, this horse will show up for turf race entries. If the horse is a jumper, this option will not appear.
  • Trains on Dirt - if yes, dirt will appear as an option for workouts (and may be selected with auto workouts). If the horse is a jumper, this option will not appear.
  • Trains on Turf - if yes, turf will appear as an option for workouts (and may be selected with auto workouts). If the horse is a jumper, this option will not appear.
  • Jockey Choices/Instructions - same as the regular app. You have to pick the jockeys in order, you can’t pick Jockey 3 without Jockeys 1 and 2, etc.
  • Minimum/Maximum Distance - this one is new, if you pick distances the horse will only show up for races within that range. The suggested distance (if any) is based on your horse’s previous performance. If they place in the top 3 in a race at a given distance, the suggestion will reflect that.
  • Equipment is standard. :wink:
  • Notes for next race is also new. You can write anything you want here, and it will show up when you’re entering the horse in a race. Once the horse races, the note will be cleared, and you can create a new note if you want. As the prompt suggests, this is probably most helpful for post-race decisions, so when you see that a horse bombed in a turf sprint race, you can note down “Try long-distance turf”. Or I like to cycle through the equipment before locking it in, so I’d probably write “Use SR, try long-distance turf”.
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Oh gosh this is INCREDIBLE for entering. Thank you Shanthi! Can we also have a toggle for horses to show up for SC races, yes/no? I’m thinking of more than one occasion where I accidentally switched a horse to SC (oops). Would be nice to also toggle based on jump trial times for horses still on the flat, but that might be too tricky.

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Love it Shanthi! The more options the better imho.

With next race notes could that also have a toggle keep/clean. If selected to keep it obviously stays but unselected it defaults and removes the note?

I’d love to see when searching upcoming races it reflects out to 60 days instead of the current 30, I think we’d see a lot more forward entries that way.

I’ve built an option in the race entry for that, but yes, once I migrate jump trials over it’d be nice to flag a horse as “please never do jumps again”. :wink:

This should be doable.

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